Thanks for your help, but what I need goes beyond even a DSO, I want to be able to compile, link execute a C program, later on compile a C function to binary, load this into memory using a malloc/fread combination into the original program and then execute it from there. With a DSO, you need to know the function name, parameters etc in advance, so you link a stub which then call the DSO code itself. Steve -----Original Message----- From: John Love-Jensen [mailto:eljay@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 15 September 2003 16:51 To: DAWE,STEVE (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex2); 'gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Re: How to get GCC to compile to binary, but in raw format NOT object Hi Steve, You want a DSO (dynamic shared object). Generate your code into a shared object (a .so in Unix-land, a .dll in Windows-land, a .library in Amiga-land), and -- in Unix-land -- use dlopen and the other dlxxxx functions when you want to access your routine dynamically. Windows and Amiga have equivalent mechanisms. --Eljay
